Re: [PATCH -V18 04/13] vfs: Allow handle based open on symlinks

[Christoph Hellwig]

Suddenly getting an file pointer for a symlink which could never happen
before is a really bad idea.  Just add a proper readlink_by_handle
system call, similar to what's done in the XFS interface.

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